Box-drying apparatus.



MI PARIDON.

BOX DRYING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION man mun. 191s.

Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

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BOX DRYING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAYIY. 1915.

Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

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MICHAEL PARIDON, or OS'WEGO, new YORK,

ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A" CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOX-DRYING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent. v Patented 6, 1917.

Application filed May 17, 1915. Serial No. 28,558.

To. all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL PARIDON, a

' citizen of the United 'States, and resident of the city and county of Oswego and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Drying Appa ratus, of which the following is a specification. Y.

This invention relates to a drying apparatus for the shucks orcovers of slide boxes,- and more particularly match-box shucks or covers having an exterior coating of friction paint which constitutes an ignition surface. The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus whereby the shucks or coversas rapidly as they are 'produced are assembled in rows in spaced relation to each other and the painted surfaces thereof are interval of time to the eflicient fiuence of the atmosphere.

In the present form of embodiment of my invention the apparatus is associated with a match-box shuck machine of the character illustrated in Patent No. 822,351, dated J une rying in- 5,'1906,, wherein the shucks are successively formed on a suitable bar or mandrel and fed v therealon to, and presented to the ction of,

the friction paint applying+d vices, .the

shucks being thence discharged from the bar or mandrel to a suitable table. Such apparatus in a typical form comprises an intermittently rotatable drum structure hav-. ing a circumferential serie' of shuck-receiving pockets or chambers ;of peculiar construction which are brought successively into alinement with the mandrel, feeding devices.

being provided whereby the bucks are pro-' gressivelytransferred from t e mandrel into the successive pockets and whereby also such shucksare ejected from the pockets after the drum structure has completed a suflicient number of rotations to insure the drying of the strikiiig paint on the shucks. .The invention also comprises various features of construction and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a mat'ch-box-shuck drying apparatus embodying an eificientform of the invention, showing so much of a shuck-making machine as is necessary to illustrate the invention.

Fig. '2 is a view, on a larger scale, illustrating the forward or delivery part of the mandrel extension, the supporting roller therefor, and the feed dog, and adjuncts, for transferring the shucks from such extension to the pocketed drum structure illustrated in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the mandrel extension adjacent to the support-- ing roller, as on the'li-ne 33 of Fig. 2. a

' Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section through the mandrel extension, as on the line 4.--4 of Fig. 1, showing the pocketed drum structure and other parts in elevation. Fig. 5 illustrates a fragment'of the drum structure with several of the pocket-forming segments thereon; shucks being indicated by dotted lines as supported within the pockets. thus supported and exposed for a rolonged f to turn in the contents of the receptacle, and

13 one of the horizontal disks'by means of which the paint is transferred from the wheels 12 to the opposing surfaces of the successive shucksS on the mandrel, all as fully set out in the patent referred to. j

Pivoted to the delivery end of the mandrel is a bar 14 which constitutes an extension of the mandrel, to and along which extension the painted shucks areadvanced from the mandrel. The free end of this e'xtension is loosely supported on a spool-like roller 15 which is mounted to rotate in beardrum structure 18, the shaft 19 of which is journaled in appropriate bearingslin the frame 17. This pocketed portion comprises a succession of segments 20 encircling a pair of spaced side wheels, which constitute the end heads of the drum, said segments constituting the rim of the drum and being individually secured to the end heads by screws 21, or the like, so as to be severally.

attachable to and detachable from the structure.

The contiguous faces.of adjoining seg- I ments are provided throughouttheir length with recesses parallel to the axis of rotation of the drum, which recesses are shaped. to

aflord radial pockets each comprising spaced parallel walls 22 andV-shaped longitudinal end portions 23. The radial width of such walls is substantially equal to the width of a box-shuck sothat shucks arranged end to end may be Jsnugly entered into and supported. within the pocket, and yet the portions 23' of the pocket afford air passages along the painted sides of the shucks, as clearly indicated in Fig. 5. The passages thus provided prevent the rubbing of the painted surfaces, and also afford ducts for the free passage of air along such surfaces to facilitate the drying of the friction paint. Thelongitudinal edges of the contiguous segments at thefronts and backs of the latter arepreferably provided with elongated recesses 24, 25, respectivelywvhich'afiord air vents for the respective V-shaped-passages.

The pocketed drum structure is intermittently rotated in such a manner as to present its pockets successively to the proximate end of the mandrel extension and thus permit the coated shucks to be introduced end to endinto the opposing pockets. In the present instance the drum structureis provided on one side with a circular series of regularly spaced pins 27 corresponding in number and relation with the pockets, with' which pins progressively co acts a barrel cam 28 on a shaft 29 having'itsbearings in suitably-disposed brackets on the frame 17. The shaft 29 bears a spur wheel 30 which is geared through an interposed'gear 31, with a pinion 32 on a power driven shaft 33.

The contour of the cam 28 is suchthat it engages and advances the pins step-by-step, thus imparting the requisite impulses to the drump A suficicnt number of the coated shucks, endto end, are introduced into the success si ve pockets to supply all the pockets of the drum,'in say, three rotations of the drum, the sections successively entered into each pocket advancing the preceding sections, and the fourth entry into each pocket causing the discharge therefrom of the leading section, and soon. Thus the shufcks are given ample time to dry before their discharge from the drum.

In the present instance, the shucks are transferred fromthe mandrel extension 14 by the action thereon of the free end of a dog 34 which is reciprocative longitudinally of the extension. This dog ;is pivoted, as at 35, toa cross-head 36'which is slidingly fitted on parallel guide rods 37 supported at their ends in the standard 16 and in apart of the frame 38 of the shuck painting structure. The free end of the dog is held normally against the under side of the mandrel'extension by the action of a suitablydisposed leaf spring 39 on the cross-head. This cross-head is connected by means of a link 40 with the upper arm of a lever 41 which is fulcrumed, as at 42 on the frame 17, the lower arm of the lever being, in turn, connected by means of a link 43- with a crank 44 on the shaft 45 of the gear wheel 31. Thus during the rotation of said shaft and its crank, the cross-head and its dog are reciprocated as above mentioned. In the back stroke of the dog its free end passes under a certain, number, sayfive, of coated shucks and then engages the lower edge of the rearmost shuck, (as indicated in Fig. 2) and in its forward movement the dog advances to the side of the drum (as indicated in Fig. 1), and thus pushes the entire series of shucks bodily along the mandrel extension out its length a series of elongated parallel pockets for the reception of match box shucks, the walls of said pockets being shaped to provide spaces alOng the sides of the boxes within the pockets.

2. In an apparatus of the character described, an endless carrier including a continuous series of sections the contiguous edges of which are recessed to provide elongated pockets for the reception of match box shucks.

3. In an apparatus of the character de- H scribed, an endless carrier having throughout its length a series of elongated parallel pockets for the reception of match box shucks, the walls of said pockets being shaped to provide spaces along the sides of the boxes within the pockets and also air vents leading from said spaces to the ex- I terior of the carrier.

4. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with a machine for coating match box shucks, said machine in cluding a mandrel, of an endless carrier adjacent the free end of the mandrel having throughout its length a series of elongated shuck receiving pockets, means for intermittently moving said carrier to advance its pockets successively to the 'end of the mandrel, and .means for feeding a series of shucks from the extension into each of the pockets.

5. In an apparatus of the character ,described, a drum structure having a circular series of circumferential pockets therein for the reception of match box shucks, the narrow edge walls of said pockets being shaped to provide spaces along the sides of .the boxes within the pockets.

6. In an apparatus of the character described, a drum structure having segments aroundthe circumference thereof, the contiguousedges of said segments being recessed to provide pockets ffor the reception of match-box shucks.

7. In an apparatus of the character described, a drum structure having a circular series of circumferential pockets therein for the reception of match box shucks, the narrow edge walls of said pockets being shaped to provide spaces along the sides of the boxes withiil the pockets and also circumferential air vents for said spaces.

8. In an apparatus of the character'described, a drum structure having segments around the circumference thereof, the contiguous edges of adjoining segments being recessed to provide pockets for the reception of match-box shucks and being also recessed to provide circumferential air vents for the pockets. 7

9. In an apparatus of the'character described, the combination with a machine for coating match-box shucks, of a mandrel extension, a drum structure adjacent the free end thereof having a circular series of shuck-receiving pockets, means for intermittently rotating the drum structure to advance the pockets successively to the end of the mandrel, and means for feeding a series of shucks from the extension into each of the pockets. j

10. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination Witha machine for coating match-box shucks, of a mandrel extension, a roller support for the free end of the extension, a drum structure adjacent such end of the extension, said structure having a circular series of shuck-receiving pockets, means for intermittently rotating the drum-structure to advance the pockets successively to the end of the mandrel, a feed dog for the shucks, and means for pcriodically reciprocating said dog. I

Signed'in the city and county of Oswego and State of New York this 14th day' of May, A. D. 1915.

' MICHAEL PARIDON, 

